gambling house vs building

gambling house and building both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gambling house	Yes	No	No	No
building	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, building is a hypernym of gambling house; that is, building is a word with a broader meaning than gambling house:

gambling house: a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business)
building: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

Other hypernyms of gambling house include edifice, business establishment, place of business.

gambling house (noun)	building (noun)
a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business)	the act of constructing something
	the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
	a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
	the occupants of a building